Master Your Forehand with ATP Coach Adri - Tips and Common Mistakes

Hello tennis nerds. I'm here with coach Adri and we're very happy, both of us, that you really loved his one-handed backhand video that we did together. He had some great advice so check that out if you haven't, if you play with a one-handed backhand and if you have a two-handed backhand we'll get to that at some point. But today we're not gonna talk about that, we're gonna talk about the most important shot in tennis when it comes to winning matches and that's the forehand. Adri has a great forehand. What would you say your forehand looks like? Like which player would you say? Good question. I don't like to compare myself so much. I don't want to put you on the spot. A little bit and I'm a little bit... It's kind of Roger-esque. But I've heard a lot of comments saying that it looks like Roger's. I wish to hit like Roger. I don't hit anywhere close to Roger. But a lot of people have told me that which I'm like wow, thank you so much. You're a humble guy, we don't have to worry about your ego swelling up. So how did you work with your forehand and how did you develop it? Good question. As I was growing up I had a coach that was very technical, French coach and he really put a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of work onto my technique, both on forehand and on backhand. It's strange because my technique as a kid is nowhere near of what it is now. It's just developed and also I watched a lot of videos. I remember I was doing a lot of shadows growing up and kind of like shadows of what I wanted to look like. But not really imagining myself like copying a player but just kind of like what mentally I thought that a forehand could look like, how it looked better, how it could play better using a little bit of biomechanical logic and common sense. Like hitting the ball in front with an open racket face but if I have a start with a closed racket face I can get more of a whip to contact in front. All those things really helped me to have the forehand that I have today. I believe it is my best shot although I think my backhand is more stable than my forehand. Although I feel my forehand is quite stable too, but I can hit more winners on my forehand. I think pretty much everyone can. Although backhands are usually a shot that's more stable, more solid, go cross-court to cross-court, maybe a little bit more... Less risk you take with the backhand. Exactly and the forehand you can kind of up the pace, slow down the pace, lift it up, bring it down, flatter, attack, hit the winners and all that kind of stuff. And I've just always really enjoyed kind of hitting a good-looking shot and maybe that comes from the Roger side of things. I always liked Roger although I didn't really try to copy him, but just he plays very beautifully and I kind of also wanted to hit beautifully as he did. Not necessarily like him but yeah. It's a good point and we'll get into some elements of the forehand that whether you want to hit like Roger or you want to hit like Rafa, you want to hit like Carlitos. Alright so coach Adri, the forehand, what steps does it consist of and where do we start with the forehand? It's like a stroke that you know everybody knows kind of how to hit but then there are a million different biomechanical parts that we can break down of course and you can easily overthink this but it's good to understand the fundamentals of a good forehand. Yes, absolutely. So I believe that any forehand or any shot in tennis the strings need to be facing the direction you want to hit to on contact point. Now how we get to that contact point is what's gonna make us either hit a good shot or a bad shot or at least repeat the same shot over and over again being very consistent. So I'll put it this way, if I have a backswing that looks like this and I contact here, maybe I can do it once if I have a lot of time but it's very hard to repeat the same swing over and over and over again identical. However, the more simple backswing I have and swing towards the ball that I have, the more times I can repeat that identically. So people have a very complicated backswing, I am sure that they're going to be more inconsistent than a person that has a very simplified and easy to do backswing and swing towards the ball. Second of course is the contact point, you want the contact point to be well in front of you, ideally with a straight arm but that's a very complicated part because it depends a lot on how you hold the racket. If you have a more of an eastern to semi-western grip you can contact the ball with a completely straight arm and without forcing your wrist at all, my racket you see is totally flat which is the strings are pointing in the direction that I want to hit the ball. However, the more western your grip goes the more you're going to need to bend your elbow on contact point. So you will see players hitting with a bent elbow and I can probably guarantee you that 95%, 98%, 99% of those players the more bent their elbow is on contact is because more western grip they have. You can see like this, I have a straight arm but I have a semi-western towards eastern grip but if I go like this and I don't force it's all of my strings is already looking downwards a little bit so I need to bend my elbow a little bit and now I've automatically changed my racket so it's looking straight. If I go even more down, sorry even more western the strings are looking down so I need to bend it more so now it's looking straight and so forth. Okay yeah good examples like if you have players with like pretty extreme western grips like Nick Kyrgios, Jack Sock you can see that they're hitting the ball quite close to their body but then you have like guys with different grips, slightly different grips, generally semi-western to eastern, Roger, Verdasco, Rafa, they hit with a straight arm quite straight and quite far in front of them right so you can work with both different techniques but it's a very well explained by you like that the grip obviously makes the difference of where your contact point is. And don't let anyone tell you that you must hit with a straight arm because let's say you've already been in the game for 10 years and you have a western grip and then you watch a video on YouTube or any forehand tutorial you may look at yeah and you have a western grip but then the video tells you to hit with a straight arm you won't be able to hit it your ball is going to bounce on your own side of the court. It doesn't make sense. You need to be realistic then you have to say I'm gonna change my grip to a more semi-western or eastern so that I can manage to hit with a straight arm or accept the fact that you're gonna keep your western because that's a huge change to go from western to eastern or the other way around but it's not so common or I don't advise to go from a semi-western eastern to a fully western or extreme western so don't let anyone fool you yes if you have a western grip just accept the fact that you're gonna have more elbow bend and then work your way that way get closer to the body bend that elbow you're gonna have to rip the ball more from down to up rather from back to forward now back to your initial question Jonas I kind of went off chain there forehand so first thing you want to do is you want to prepare with your left arm okay my right arm is not taking the racket back at all I'm taking back with my left okay why because then when I get into my position my left arm is already on the side of my body and when I let go I'm finding this position and I want to have this extension because this obligates me to let the ball come on the outside of my hand and also my racket on the outside if I don't have a left arm straight and I have it close to me I can quickly hit the ball like this and too close to me if you hit the ball very often too close to the body which is a very common mistake have a look at your left arm before contact okay I can be sure that if you're contacting very often too close to you is because your left arm is not straight but if your left arm is straight it wouldn't make sense to hit the ball like this you kind of feel obligated to go on the outside okay so take the left arm take the racket back with your left arm and that's also going to make you shoulder turn unit turn already I don't take my racket back I just unit turn and that's already done boom boom and I'm already sideways I'm it's not like I'm twisting unit turn boom boom and I'm in position next step I let go of my racket and when I let go of my racket I take my bring my racket down I like to have my strings facing the floor I think that's maybe why a lot of people compare my forehand to Federer I know that Federer does more or less the same thing he takes the racket back with the left and then drops the racket face straight down towards the floor with a straight left arm and what that allows you to do is to whip the or the lag the whip in different places you call it different things I call it the lag or the whip the wrist comes first and that makes the tip of the racket kind of go back and just by doing that I'm already opening my racket face I contact it in front and then as I contact it in front with a flat racket face then I decide if I want to go more flat or I want to go more over the ball in the last moment I can decide flatter more topspin and every time I'll finish around shoulder height okay and one very important detail that not many people talk about but I'm going to give you a very good tip on your forehand is left arm straight and you're going to see nearly every pro on contact the left hand is above the contact point if you do that and you can go on Google and check out Alcaraz hitting point forehand you're going to see him be like this Federer hitting point he's not right here he's about here but if you see the line the hand is higher than the contact point Casper Ruud everyone Rafa Nadal Sinner Djokovic absolutely everybody are in either here or here but always above if you are doing this I can guarantee that you're going to be missing more down okay action reaction if my action is down my reaction will also go down if I keep this one up this one will want to follow up at the end of the day your two arms are connected they want to follow each other it's just how our body works and biomechanically it makes much more sense and again you can repeat the same swing over and over again very well explained Audrey and that's the kinetic chain and important I think to mention is that like the the racket lag where it starts with like the you know famous term of patting the dog you want to pat the dog like you put the racket face the strings down towards the ground you shouldn't really force that they should come like quite natural like your muscles shouldn't be tense you know if you look like if you look at Andre Rublev like when he it's like it's quite important to have like using the body more than using the arms you know enforcing with the arms and that you explain well with like the racket take back and so on yeah and yeah I do want to mention that what I can explain is what I do basically because on the comments with the backhand a lot of you wanted to listen about my forehand but again you don't need to pat the dog it's just it's my way to make sure that I lag and it helps me with the lag but a lot of players do the windshield wiper back way and then have a flat racket face and then from here they go down and here that's perfectly fine too however you're gonna get less lag and with less lag you have less acceleration which then leads to less power less pace less kph on your ball right so the more lag the more acceleration if which a very good way to lag is having or petting dog the racket face looking downwards but you can also hit the ball like this you're perfectly fine doing that a little bit more old-school you can maybe get a little bit more spin but you get less acceleration which then leads to less spin so there's a very good sentence there's not a wrong way there's not a right way but there's always a better way I'll go through a step-by-step on the forehand and I'm gonna start with the most important although there's not a right or wrong way but there is a better way so the grip many many years ago the Eastern grip was the way to go and then tennis evolved to get more spin more power more acceleration and then people started hitting more Western little by little was more and more Western and now tennis is transitioning again to go more towards Eastern I'm not saying to hit it fully Eastern but semi Western I find it a really neutral grip with a semi Western grip you can get the spin you can get the flat you can hit it in any height which I think is really ideal because tennis you're hitting a lot in defense positions on the court very often you're defending because your opponent wants to win the point of view think about it this way you want to hit the ball the most comfortable as possible when you're defending because when you're attacking or when you're in a very normal area on the court in the center of the court you can kind of do whatever you want you have the time but when you're defending that's when you're running you're stressed and then you want to hit the most comfortable shot possible from those positions I mean that's an instinctual shot so that is that's in your muscle memory exactly and that is a semi Western a neutral grip how to find that grip very simple put the racket on the floor palm right down the racket and grab boom forehand grip okay yep semi Western and that's the most common grip I would say on tour these days especially from the younger generation I mean obviously you have Roger with the Eastern to semi Western so you can actually be a little bit in between yeah but the guys who are seeing overall on at least the ATP especially are playing like semi Western that would be the I say that today the most popular yeah at the moment yes and especially generations coming up because now there's so much information out there also what's helping a lot is the kids using the correct color balls yeah how Western really started to develop was the the kids were playing with yellow balls the ball is bouncing above their head they need to hit it here but if I have a neutral grip and I hit it here my strings is facing up right so I need to bring it down and then from up here now my strings are facing flat yeah so that's the reason why a lot of kids started doing Western but now with the correct color balls the ball is bouncing on the appropriate height for the age of the child and then they have a much cleaner grip all along the way so Western grip is the semi Western grip is the ideal way look at this if I hit the ball in front without faulty my wrist I don't I'm not twisting it this way or I'm not twisting it that way I have it totally relaxed and my racket is flat and I want to have a straight arm in front if you're playing tennis and you have a little bit more Western grip then hold whatever grip you can you want have your wrist relaxed now my wrist is relaxed you can see that it's facing a little bit downwards so if I just bend my elbow that's my contact point if I have an extreme Western my strings is facing down I bend my elbow more that will be my contact point okay just so you know first of all is the grip second of all is the first thing you do when the ball is coming towards you is you knit turn notice I don't say take the racket back take the racket back very often leads to taking racket the right arm also you take it way too far back you never want to take your racket back farther than your shoulders nor your wrist nor the tip of the racket never there you want to keep it in front of you within your field of vision you can always see your racket if you're looking straightforward as soon as I'm here I don't see my racket anymore I lose sense of my racket although I know more or less where it is but I don't know exactly where it is and the compact part also as the longer you take your racket back which you talked about it's like the risk is that your racket does something slightly funny and you're opening up for more errors you have a longer swing right exactly if I lose field of vision on my racket I don't see it anymore and also it's so far back I don't know if I'm repeating exactly the same movement time and time again you want to repeat it and if I have my racket in front of me I know that I'm doing the exact same movement all the time so back again unit turn I stand side is first thing split unit turn I move towards the ball when I'm getting to the ball I let go of my racket okay if you want to prepare like this patting the dog or you want to go with your tip looking backwards that's totally fine when you want to accelerate look at this pull with your left if you pull with your left you're going to already accelerate your right yes if you only go like this you only have one side of your body moving towards the ball but if I pull this way I'm already initiating the motion you're going to get a lot more acceleration you're going to up 20 kilometers per hour just by doing this little tip of extending your left and pull if I only extend the left to here and I just do this I don't have the same that if I do this okay it's quite simple not difficult to do repeat it often with someone feeding you ball machine whatever it takes but really get this left hand and pull second is contact point contact with the racket flats a lot of people say bring the strings looking down on contact I don't agree I don't know if you if you see pros on slow motion if they come from under they contact and then right after contact is when they go over but contact point I tell you it's totally flat the topspin comes from the racket pointing down contact and over if you wanted to flat it from back contact and forward okay but contact you the ball if you go down the ball is going to go down if you go here the ball is going to go straight if you go the ball is going to go up the ball is going to go wherever the racket is pointing a lot of coaches a lot of videos will say have the strings looking down then you brush over the ball when you hit I don't totally agree with that it's not always wrong and I'm going to explain why the ball was going to go wherever the strings are facing if the strings are facing straight the ball is going to go straight if they're facing up the ball is going to go up and if it's facing down the ball is going to go down what makes you hit the topspin is not by going over the ball if you go over the ball the ball is going to go straight down it's what your tip of the racket or the frame of the racket is where before contact then you can brush from behind the ball on contact and then continue over after contact and that brush motion is what's going to make the ball to rotate that's why the ball spins the only time I agree that the racket face points down or is facing down on contact is think about geometry when you're hitting the ball on the rise if the ball is bouncing and it's going upwards I need to find the angle of the string for the ball to then go straight but if the balls if I'm hitting it on the rise the ball is bouncing and I have this racket open it's going to go up right it's like a pool pool table but it this way if the balls coming down and I have a closed racket I'm going to hit the frame or if I'm on contact the ball is going to go down then I might need to hit it either straight or a little bit open to cancel out a little bit like geometry the with the angles that's the only time yes I do agree that the strings are looking down I know a lot of you are gonna think Adri is crazy doesn't know what he's talking about it works for me I know that I hit a very clean shot you can hear it on the impact that I hear it on on the pro shots I've seen them in person I you can hear the contact when it's a clean compact shots so open racket face even though you're Western when you have a Western what you can do you're closer to the body and you can rip it more from under but I'm telling you the contact is pretty much straight and immediately after contact that's when it goes over it's not there on impact the ball is gonna go straight down it's common sense at least in my maybe often you will hit the ball with a little bit racket face over the ball but that's if you're played as contacting the ball early and early depends on the bounce if the ball is bouncing way there and on impact is coming straight you're gonna have a real open racket face if you're hitting the ball on the rise higher maybe you're inside the court you're above the net and you want to hit it slightly downwards then yes but don't take it so literally that you have to the ball above you're gonna be first of all framing the ball very often either you can frame this side of the frame or this side of the frame you can frame either one second point is that your sweet spot reduces on the on your racket and second is that the shot you're gonna hit it very thin you're not gonna have a clean impact it's gonna be very thin and you're gonna reduce the pace of your shots makes us man that's a good point I think one thing that the people generally struggle with is especially on like the record level is that you know you the preparation like the unit turn they know in theory but they're too late right so like the ball maybe has already passed the net and they're they're too late at preparing yes is that something you're seeing often I guess as a coach as well and and what can you do to remedy that is that something you just have to repeat to be earlier on time or is there any tips and tricks I like the question super common mistake to prepare late if you split step correctly you're going to prepare correctly it's very hard to judge the opponent's impact if you don't split step if I'm just standing here the opponent might impact and then I prepare but the balls coming fast so between the impacts and I prepare the balls already traveled 10 meters but if I split step on impact and I land and I prepare immediately either if it's forehand or backhand any shot whatever it is split step prepare and you're gonna be much more on time so split step on your opponent's impact let's step on your opponent's impact it can be a split second afterwards but the more it's a good reference point actually to have because like I think people think oh yeah you you need to be ready with your racket before the ball crosses the net like that's one of the famous things but I think this makes actually more sense it's totally right way and that's a good exercise someone feeds you a ball and then you your goal is to prepare your goal is to prepare before the ball bounces on your side and then as you get better at it maybe prepare before the ball crosses the net but that's the result of doing it well but the roots of the problem is split step prepare if you do that you're gonna be preparing before the even ball passes the service line on the other opponent's court and that's the root of the problem we're not we shouldn't always focus on finding the result although of course you want to get the result but solve the root of the problem first and the result is automatic and you're gonna have even a better result trust me true so yeah we touched upon the the preparation the unit turn split step contact point now but then we get to like follow through like where you end up with your racket after you hit the ball follow through impact I have a straight arm but you can also have a little bit more bent and on impact you want to continue okay you want to make think about it this way let's say you're standing on a white canvas on the floor okay and you have a paintbrush on the tip of the racket make the largest circle you can after impact you hit and make the largest circle you can I hit the ball with a I hit the ball my god if we have a lot of noises we can move a little bit further up now I hit the ball with a straight arm so I hit the ball my straight arm and I continue with my arm straight it's straight straight straight straight straight straight straight now my joint does not let me go any further that's when I bend very common I see impact close yeah impact close but impact and feels more like natural like flowy when you do like you described like when you see pros hit the ball well that's what happens you know they flow yeah yeah and they get that extra depth for free makes common sense if I hit it here and I finish immediately I'm the balls gonna travel but it's gonna travel much shorter compared to if I hit it and then follow through longer I'm gonna penetrate the ball okay and that's in every sport in golf is the same I contact the ball and I don't finish immediately I contact and I extend my arms okay in boxing also you don't want to just tap the guy you want to tap and go through it no it's true it's true it's true cutting that that's true like it's it's a it's letting your body do the kinetic chain movement to its fullest right like it not not breaking the chain we talk about kinetic chain and when you stop a motion from like continuing you're breaking the chain and then you're losing power right so yes and you might not think of it but if I if I hit and I break but in order for me to break I need to be stopping a little bit before or at least breaking a little bit before you know like if you if you're driving in traffic and you and you stop the car you start breaking until the car stop so it's the same thing like a sprint 100 meter sprint the sprinters they sprint past the finish line and then they start to stop but if they already start to stop before the finish line that means that they're gonna be slower they're not getting all the way so contact and go all the way through you're going to get the maximum potential of your shot whether it's depth power pace whatever it is also so important to hit and finish the shot all the way I'm not going to tell you you must finish here or here or here doesn't really matter as long as your left arm has come up your racket will follow up because of the action reaction and it can be around your shoulder a little bit above your shoulder it can be behind your head like Daniel doesn't really matter just don't stop if you stop your swing halfway the ball will very often stop halfway if you finish your swing all the way the ball will travel all the way okay so that's another good metaphor slash phrase that you can keep in your head the more spin the more you hit in okay and hit all the way so the ball can travel all the way okay so now we're gonna go into footwork we've talked about the kinetic chain the importance of of letting your rackets be loose preparing with the unit turn and flowing through letting your not your racket stop in an unnatural way but for most people I think the footwork is a huge struggle maybe not the sexiest topic but the one that's gonna make you win more matches in general I think yes up until now we've talked a lot about the waist up what your body does what your arm does both your right arm your left arm again so important include your left arm okay on every shot your forehand your backhand we talked about this on the previous video on the 100 backhand the same with the 200 if you guys want the video we'll get that done also yeah we need 400,000 likes that's usually what mr. B says but we can't say that here on this channel but all the upper body stuff is great but if you don't move to the boards the ball you will not hit the ball okay so the first thing that's moving is the feet and then once you get there then is the upper body the upper body is super important of course it's what's hitting the ball but what's gonna make you get to the ball in the first place is your legs I can't stress this enough the legs is the most important part of tennis every tennis player in the top hundred has totally different technique some of them are similar some of them are more Daniel is very different other players are more similar but everyone has their own technique however footwork everyone has basically the same basically the same and that's very interesting how everyone can have a different upper body so a lot of styles work but pretty much everybody has the same lower body movement okay the the footwork so every single tennis player on the tour even amateurs juniors everyone they do or we do a split step on impact I jump before my opponent's impact and I land on his impact at least practice to try to land on his impact if you land a split second later that's fine but the later you are the worse of a split step you've done okay so try to really practice on landing your split step landing the splits are not jumping on his impact you want to land on his impact soon as I land then I see what direction the ball is coming and then as soon as I see if it's going in this case to my forehand I know I prepare and I start to move okay the earlier you move the more time you'll have to get there I'm gonna put down this is something you guys can do in your basement in your garage in your garden on the court I'm gonna put up three balls shout out to Andrey Kuznetsov he's the one that taught me this when you're hitting a shot on ball number one after my split step my first foot is the right and then left okay these are all the balls in the center of the court split right left okay split right left if it's a little bit closer my right does not need to go so wide I can go right left that's number one if the ball is coming to number two the first step is the left okay split left right if I want it open stance or I finish with the left one if I have good enough time to hit a close stance I'll do it smoother and all the way split left right left okay notice how as soon as I split the first thing I do is unit turn and the correct foot is moving first split left right left more open stance split left right okay and then I hit number three okay again left is the fastest way to move split left right left right if I have good enough time I might want to go close stance quite often normally on the furthest one you're always hitting in open stance but sometimes maybe the ball is very wide but it's a very slow shot maybe you can go close stance okay very important you can practice it and then you can do in any combination you want you can go number one number two and then you return and then you go to number three or you can go one one time two two times and three three times or one one one you can do it multiple times super important there you have both the open stance and the close stance notice how every time you want to do close stance is one extra step takes a little bit extra time so only close as you do when you have that little bit extra time nowadays at least on pro level the ball is coming and going so fast that you only have time to hit only open stance they're hitting open stance the majority of the time but yes that when they have a good position or a little bit slower they can go more close or maybe even semi open which is more and more modern another important part is the recovery if you don't recover good enough after your shot you're gonna be in a worse position to do your split step and be in the right spot for your next shot okay notice this number one all I'm doing is one step to get to the ball and then I'm closing okay but I'm doing one step okay I'd consider this as one because split and I'm already in line okay when I hit all I'm doing is one step to split ball number two I'm gonna get there in two steps one two I hit what's this one two split I take two steps to get there and two steps back I'm just as fast to hit then to come back and I can repeat this one two split one two hit one two split one two hit one two split okay great exercise ball number three it's gonna take me four steps okay notice that's gonna take me four steps to get there and four steps to get back split one two three four hit one two three four split one two three four hit one two three four split okay super important very organized watch Sinner watch Sinner's footwork he is pitch perfect okay he gets to every ball whether he's hitting ball from the center or he's hitting a ball way out here he looks just as comfortable because he's getting to the ball so early he's so stable and he has such a good footwork that allows him to hit so stable in any position on the court the drill that I just showed you is with the open stance but we can do exactly the same closed stance however closed stance we always add one step so on this one I mean this one is closed stance but on this one instead of two is gonna be three but the recovery we still make it in two and that one instead of four is gonna be five but we're still gonna make it back in four okay so split one two three I hit I pass the leg one two split one two three hit one two split and the same for the last one split one two three four five hit one two three four split okay also wide base on your split keep a wide base when you ever think about a Range Rover comparing to a Lamborghini Lamborghini the center of gravity is much lower okay the Range Rovers are wide also but that extra wide tire on the Lamborghini how low it is it's just really quick and agile on the corners they're much quicker to react while a tall Range Rover in the corner you're gonna feel it tilting side to side okay they're pretty good car nowadays too but you get my point yeah so get wide and not only wide get low I mean we all watched sinner Alcaraz or Alcaraz sinner in on Sunday final Roland Garros and he's just there he is sinner is so low he's a tall guy and he is so low so stable and he's just moving so well to be such a tall guy and he's low wide split step and it's just so fast off the right off the first step and when he's hitting he's not hitting and falling over he's so wide that he can hit and and then he's just agile he's just reacting he's just recovering all the time he's all the time moving reacting because he's low it just makes it so much easier for him yeah and he's always in balance and that's what you get with the low wide base it's like he he has partly more time because he's a fast mover and he's but all the reason he is never really missing is that he's always in balance like he's in balance and he will be in balance in every shot so you really need to find some extra extra special yeah Carlitos way to to outfox him because he's always in balance like one of the best players in that sense I would say like especially what tall guy like it's it's like you can see the slalom influence you know in his footwork right absolutely no it's really incredible to see and the last part I want to talk about is the semi open stance okay I think it's a more modern way of hitting the ball and I find it to be the most explosive shots on the the semi open what it allows you is to spin on your axis okay Kasparov does this really well on his forehand look at some Kasparov forehand slow-motion videos you're actually going to see his right foot end up forward and the left foot back kind of like like an X okay so he's gonna go like like this and he's spinning on the axis and when you spin on the axis you get just so much speed right it when you're on one leg okay it's fast you get a lot of weight around but you're spinning over one side of the body and the rest is spinning around but when you're spinning on one axis it's really powerful it's really fast look at Fonseca Fonseca also semi open he's even bending his knees and he's jumping in the air and doing the scissor I call it when you're getting on semi open and then you're kind of jumping you're getting that ground force from your right leg you're jumping up you land on the left and then the right will look something like like this okay really allows you to impulse yourself explode into the ball the ball is coming especially when it gets a little bit more height you can find the ball position yourself in semi open stance and get into the ball and that's really fun way of hitting really powerful way of hitting but also very advanced way of hitting I would say that you should try to do some shadows without the ball if you want to give it a go you can perfectly you can try this at home but it's very difficult I wouldn't show up to a match and try then you'll probably hit the back fence and say it's Adry's fault I don't want to hear that practice it do some shadows do some basket feed yourself the ball okay really powerful especially when the ball is around shoulder height maybe a little bit high above because you're gonna jump up to it so you will end up shoulder height. Awesome coach Adry, thanks a lot for this brilliant lesson I think there's a lot to take away from this and we're obviously reading the comments and if you have more videos you want to see in the future Adry is gonna be traveling a little bit with ATP Pro so he has an exciting few months ahead but when he's back and when we're together we can try to record some more videos because I know you like his instruction as do I and please let me know if you want any other shots. It's been so fun for me to hang out with Mr. Tennis Nerd here and for me to explain my point of view of these shots doesn't need to be the way but I like explaining my way and if you want to hear more of my way please let me know yes whether it's the volley, the smash, the serve, the tweener, drop shot, whatever it is just please let me know it's really fun for us it makes us hang out more too so thanks to you guys. We were finishing our session and I said you know what Jonas the viewers are going to resonate with one detail that I didn't talk about and I don't want to let you guys without a little detail. When I did explain about the left arm okay the unit turn and pulling the left arm is going to help you keeping okay the axis turn the body turn on the axis. How many of you have hit a ball and do this and open the chest way wide okay either you hit the ball very late because you open the bracket open the body and you hit it very late or the other way around you drag you pull the ball and you hit the tosscord way too close okay because you open your chest on impact. Practice doing this motion because what happens is that when you over twist it usually because you want to generate some extra pace some extra power in fact I'm sure many of you have rallied have a good rhythm and then you want to find a little extra punch and then you go and the ball way out way long way to the right to the left no control whatsoever so instead of generating more power by over twisting generate more power by just pulling the left and keep keep the body in place okay instead of opening okay. It's a bit like the one on the back and we talked about like staying steady staying with your chest in one place not not letting your body move too much. I'm gonna use this point as a reference as I'm doing my shadow swing here okay I want to hit the ball above this point right here okay my chest is looking to there I hit okay my chest is still looking that direction on impact and when I finish I continue in this area no moment am I throwing my chest to the other side that's gonna help you be more precise you're gonna narrow down your direction of the ball what I mean by that is if you're aiming to a certain spot instead of having balls landing well like let's say a radius of two or three meters to each side you're gonna narrow down that radius and get more consistently because you're keeping your body in place as you hit okay so a great tip try it it might not work the first time might not work the second time it might make your shots a little bit worse I'm not saying just what I told you now what I've been telling you for the whole video it might take a few days at the down level to then go way up your level give it a go guys yeah that's always the case with building new muscle memory new repetitions like you might have a downturn and when everything you try whenever you try something new in life you know it might feel weird at first but stick with it and it will improve you thanks coach Adi for the bonus tip very important